A Shrinking Society Post-Demographic Transition in Japan /

• Main Author: Hara, Toshihiko (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Population Studies,
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Social policy.; Demography.; Families.; Families > Social aspects.; Social Sciences.; Family.; Social Policy.

This is the book to focus on a new phenomenon emerging in the twenty-first century: the rapidly aging and decreasing population of a well-developed country, namely, Japan. The meaning of this phenomenon has been successfully clarified as the possible historical consequence of the demographic transit...